The MT Void

Evelyn C. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper

1999-2000

Newsletter MT Void Vol. 18 No. 1-53

Mt. Holz Science Fiction Society

Mark and Evelyn Leeper: leepers@optonline.net

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MT Void Vol. 18, No. 1 07/02/1999 1. This letter of comment came after last week's editorial.
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 2 07/09/1999 1. You can tell that it is summertime and I don't have a whole lot to talk ...
2. SUMMER OF SAM (a film review by Mark R. Leeper)
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 3 07/16/1999 1. Announcing an event!!!!
2. It seems that the MT VOID has been more controversial of late. In one ...
3. THE SPARROW by Mary Doria Russell (1996, Villard HC, 405pp, $23.00),
4. The answer to Joe's question above ("Will someone *please* tell me how ...
5. THE RED VIOLIN (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 4 07/23/1999 1. I was looking for something to write about in this week's notice.
2. EYES WIDE SHUT (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. RUN, LOLA, RUN (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 5 07/30/1999 1. You know, we are living in really fascinating times. I feel somewhat ...
2. THE HAUNTING (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 6 08/06/1999 1. I am continuing with how this country at one time encouraged tobacco use.
2. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. CHILDREN OF GOD by Mary Doria Russell (Villard, 1998, 438 pp, $23.95,
4. FACTORING HUMANITY by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, ISBN 0-312-86458-2, 1998,
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 7 08/13/1999 1. You know what I love? It is political organizations that send you mail ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 8 08/20/1999 1. My friends, I have come to you today to warn you of the threat of ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 9 08/27/1999 1. Last week I was talking about sausaging, the grinding up and form ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 10 09/03/1999 1. Relax, this is my final week on sausaging, the practice of chopping ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 11 09/10/1999 1. The Hugo winners are listed at the end of this notice. [-ecl]
2. There are those among us, myself included, who felt that the fall of ...
3. Recently I saw a documentary on propaganda cartoons from the American ...
4. FLASHFORWARD by Robert J. Sawyer (1999, Tor, 319 pp, HC, $23.95, ISBN ...
5. Hugo Awards (1999):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 12 09/17/1999 1. It has been a while since we have had a film at a video meeting at work.
3. STIR OF ECHOES (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
4. THE MUSE (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
6. THE SPIKE: ACCELERATING INTO THE UNIMAGINABLE FUTURE by Damien Broderick ...
7. STUCK IN FAST FORWARD by Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes (a book review ...
8. TWO HANDS (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 13 09/24/1999 1. Two weeks ago I wrote a somewhat elliptic piece about the resurgence ...
2. Someone in my workgroup sent around mail saying she was selling year 2000 ...
4. MICKEY BLUE EYES (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 14 10/01/1999 1. This is just a reminder that we will be showing GATTACA in HO 1J-672 ...
2. This last weekend we got the news story I have been expecting. The ...
3. THE SIXTH SENSE (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
4. AN UNUSUAL ANGLE by Greg Egan (Norstrilia Press, ISBN 0-909106- 12-6, 1983,
5. AMERICAN BEAUTY (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
6. MUMFORD (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 15 10/08/1999 1. National Public Radio dropped the fact that Home Depot has noticed ...
2. John Jetzt sends us the following:
3. Keith Morrison (keithm@polarnet.ca) posted these to Usenet
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 16 10/15/1999 1. On Thursday, October 21, at 7:30 PM Harlan Ellison will be speaking ...
3. I am not someone who gets angry easily, but I saw something in Princeton ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 17 10/22/1999 1. My training is as a mathematician and I think quantitatively when I can.
2. FIGHT CLUB (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 18 10/29/1999 1. What is Dogma 95?
2. A WIND NAMED AMNESIA (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. THE LIMEY (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 19 11/05/1999 1. It has been my impression over the last decade that many popular films have ...
2. MR. CANTON AND LADY ROSE (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 20 11/12/1999 1. Our Australia and Aussiecon Three logs are available at:
2. Last week I was saying that white males are frequently the villains ...
3. THE BONE COLLECTOR (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 21 11/19/1999 1. Frequently the sacred cows of our society do not bear close scrutiny,
2. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. DOGMA (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 22 11/26/1999 1. Frankly like most of the American public I have a dislike of Health ...
2. SLEEPY HOLLOW (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 23 12/03/1999 1. Last week I said why I think that the Health Maintenance ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 24 12/10/1999 1. We went to the Picasso Museum on our recent trip to Paris. These ...
2. TOY STORY 2 (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 25 12/17/1999 1. Our Paris trip logs are available at:
2. As we approach the end of the century I think there is one subject on ...
3. THE GREEN MILE (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
4. THE INSIDER (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 26 12/24/1999 1. Christmas celebrants everywhere, this article is not written for you. I ...
2. LIBERTY HEIGHTS (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 27 12/31/1999 1. Well, here we go. Tonight that big leading digit changes. I won't make ...
3. CRADLE WILL ROCK (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 28 01/07/2000 1. There are shortages of many things in the world. There is always ...
2. PAST LIVES, PRESENT TENSE edited by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Ace, ISBN ...
3. THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 29 01/14/2000 1. It is interesting how over the course of a few decades the ...
2. THE YEAR 2000 edited by Harry Harrison (Berkley, ISBN 0-425- 02117-3,
3. THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
4. MAGNOLIA (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 30 01/21/2000 1. Under the Nazis, under the Soviets, perhaps even in our system the ...
2. MANSFIELD PARK (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 31 01/28/2000 1. A. E. Van Vogt died Wednesday, January 26, of complications of pneumonia ...
2. I get many requests from people who read my writing and who want to see the ...
3. I always have the same problems when it comes to publishing my top ten ...
4. TOPSY TURVY (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 32 02/04/2000 1. George Mac Lachlan has been a long-time club member and in general my ...
2. LOOKING BACKWARD by Edward Bellamy (Signet, CT339, 1887 [1960], 222+xxii ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 33 02/11/2000 1. When I was a young I remember seeing somebody from the government ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 34 02/18/2000 1. I cannot believe that it happened again. Well, yeah, I say that, but I ...
2. THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 35 02/25/2000 1. Nigel Kneale got it wrong. It was not five million years ago, it was ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 36 03/03/2000 1. I was asked recently on Usenet what I would list as the ten most influential ...
2. TITUS (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. BOILER ROOM (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 37 03/10/2000 1. Question: What was the shortest century in world history? It was the ...
2. WONDER BOYS (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. THE CUP (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
4. SWEET AND LOWDOWN (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 38 03/17/2000 1. Now a message from Loosent Management.
2. We live in an age of weird ideas. I think that part of the problem is ...
3. MISSION TO MARS (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
4. THE NINTH GATE (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
5. MY DOG SKIP (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 39 03/24/2000 1. I am really behind in some of my reading so I took about a half an hour ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 40 03/31/2000 1. I was at Boskone, a science fiction convention, a few weeks ago. Like many ...
2. A CIVIL CAMPAIGN by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen Books, 1999, 405pp, HC,
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 41 04/07/2000 1. I correspond with a friend from Germany. He mentioned in passing ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 42 04/14/2000 1. Most of us have heard the litany from Prairie Home Companion where they ...
2. MOSURA (1996) [US Video Release: THE REBIRTH OF MOTHRA] (a film review by ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 43 04/21/2000 1. The nominations for the 2000 Hugo Awards are on-line at ...
2. I am going to make a suggestion on how to amend tax laws. My suggestion ...
3. AMERICAN PSYCHO (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
4. KEEPING THE FAITH (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 44 04/28/2000 1. A piece of email I got criticized the film REAR WINDOW and asked me to ...
2. U-571 (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. Here is the complete 2000 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award Nomination ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 45 05/05/2000 1. Last week I was explaining the reasons that I do not hold the high regard ...
2. FREQUENCY (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. ME MYSELF I (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 46 05/12/2000 1. THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, Anthony Mann, 1964. At this writing ...
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 47 05/19/2000 1. There was a time that the Medical Department at Lucent seemed nice and ...
2. GLADIATOR (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 48 05/26/2000 1. I missed what is now called the Golden Age of Radio. Not that I am too ...
2. DINOSAUR (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
3. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
5. SHANGHAI NOON (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
6. SMALL TIME CROOKS (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 49 06/02/2000 1. Reminder: Channel 13 in New York is running THE LATHE OF HEAVEN tomorrow,
2. Last week I was talking about my new passion for something fairly ...
3. THE BIG KAHUNA (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 50 06/09/2000 1. We are continuing on our theme talking about the classic days of radio. I ...
2. FRANKENSTEIN (1910) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 51 06/16/2000 1. Last week I discussed three of the great geniuses of old time radio:
2. HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J. K. Rowling (Arthur A.
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 52 06/23/2000 1. We have been talking the last several weeks about radio drama of the 1930s ...
2. Additional information from Bill Higgins:
3. TITAN A.E. (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
4. CHICKEN RUN (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
5. EAST IS EAST (a film review by Mark R. Leeper):
MT Void Vol. 18, No. 53 06/30/2000 1. I have a little game I play with people. I ask them to make some ...
2. DARWIN'S RADIO by Greg Bear (Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1999, hardcover,
3. Continuing with this week's editorial...

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